Royals POSTCAST: Royals WIN, 12-1 | Salvador Perez Leads EXPLOSION Of Offense for Kansas City in Win

Royals POSTCAST: Royals WIN, 12-1 | Salvador Perez Leads EXPLOSION Of Offense for Kansas City in Win

[Music] This is the Royals Post Cast, your instant game reaction for the Kansas City Royals, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Welcome in to the Royals Post Cast, your go-to spot for live postgame reaction to every single Royals game this season. I’m your host Chance Leibo and you can follow me on Twitter, Chance Lebo. That is right by the name tag here, CHA NCE, last name Lie Ebau. If you can’t make a show live, do not worry. These episodes will be uploaded always for you to listen to on demand wherever you get your podcast. That can be Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon podcasts, everywhere you get them. Or if you’re here in the YouTube chat and you have to step out like our good friend A and NB did, you can always listen and watch this show on demand after the fact here on the Locked on Royals YouTube channel. Want to say thanks for making the Locked Ony podcast or the Royals postcast your first listen of the day and your go-to place for royals reaction. Before we get started, remember to subscribe to the channel and turn on our notifications so that you get an alert whenever we go live. Thanks so much for joining the show and feel free to join our live chat. Let me know your thoughts on the game and I’ll do my best to get to some of the comments. You know, the last two nights I haven’t been able to get to too many, especially last night. I know there was somebody that it wasn’t exactly happy that I didn’t get to their comments. I do my best to get to them, but in a night like last night where it was very busy, very active, and I got to go through, you know, 200 different comments, that’s just bad podcasting. Sometimes I got to get a takeoff. For me, it’s a little bit difficult to be reading the uh the questions, but also trying to uh host the show by myself. But I appreciate you guys for being here. Flood in the comments. If you have a question, just uh preface it with the question marks. Maybe we’ll get to them a little bit after the show. I do have one question starred from our friend A and NB that he wanted answered and we’ll get to that here in a little bit. Royals pick up a big big win tonight. They a series win against the White Socks and uh boy did that feel good. I was listening to uh Jack his uh his show from last night that he posted. Um I was listening to that this morning while I was having my cup of coffee and uh going through the newspaper today. Um and he talked about how if the Royals lost last night, the Royals winning today 19 to nothing. Really wouldn’t have even mattered. Instead, the Royals win last night and they still win basically 19 to nothing. 12 to1 the final score today. Offense tags Savali and company for eight in the fifth inning. Yaz three-run homer puts it well out of reach for the White Socks. And Ryan Berett, who is proving to be probably the second best pitcher on this roster right now. Then you go into next season, we talk about the young bucks that this team has in the lineup with uh with Bobby and Mike. And if he ever turns out to be what we expect him to be, Jack Kagleon, those are three core young guys under 25. The Royals also have three pitchers under 25 or at 25 or younger in their rotation in Noah Cameron, Ryan Berger, and Cole Reagan’s that are going to be long-term answers in this rotation. So, for as much as we want to criticize, criticize criticize JJ Picolo in this front office for their failure to address some of the needs in the off season, give credit where credit’s due. JJ Piccolo has picked at the margins and done an excellent job of adding pieces to this team. And Ryan Burgerer is looking like an absolute steal, especially since, you know, I know he had a game-winning hit last night, but Freddy Fine has not been great in San Diego since going over to the Padres’s. I mean, he he’s hitting just uh he’s hitting 279. I mean, he’s actually not been that bad, but an OPS of 684, well under uh the league average. Um just an excellent deal for the uh for the Royals front office getting a guy like Ryan Bert. And uh while on any other night of Royals offense, he would be the subject of our first segment, tonight’s offensive performance is exactly what you’ll be talking about. This is what you’ll be talking about. Uh tonight, the Royals get 12 runs. They absolutely smoked Aaron Savali and company around 16 hits. And folks, through the first four innings, it was looking like a lot of the same that we’d been seeing. And maybe maybe you want to be a little bit concerned about just how they’ve come out uh in these last couple of games just looking dreadful first time through the order. Same thing happened in Detroit in the series finale. Um and they were able to turn it around. Um then the same thing happened in game two in Detroit where they just didn’t get anything period the first time through the order. Um a little bit concerned about the offense and their just failure to perform first time through the order, first four innings. um if you follow along and you know I’m I I’m uh I’m going to try and uh have this come off as like I don’t have a problem but I do like to gamble and one of my favorite bets in the first half of the season was Royals first half unders like Royals first five unders team total unders because it was Royals lineup when you think about that stretch in June games of them just failing to get things done first second time through the order they’d get through the first five innings and they’d be losing one to nothing and you just be beating your head against the wall. And now we get to the point now where the Royals are sitting at uh you know four innings through this game and it was uh uh 12 uh 13 up 12 down uh or whatever you want to say. Uh 12 of 13 retired by Aaron Savale. Royals just didn’t do enough first time in a half through the order. And then Salvador Perez gets things started. Solo homer in the fourth inning. I had talked a little bit, I think I said some stuff last night about Salvador Perez. Just really hadn’t been uh too impressed by him uh since the trade of Freddy Fine. Uh he’d been catching a lot here recently, and that had me a little bit concerned about his long-term uh spot behind the plate. Maybe we get to see Carter Jensen get called up. I thought that could be a possibility, but it ended up obviously hasn’t come to fruition yet. But tonight gets a big home run and then in the same inning a two-run double. give credit to the Royals that that fifth inning. You want to talk about keep the line moving, that’s the Royals have, you know, that’s kind of their moniker and it always has been since that big run in 2014. They did just that. Uh they kept the line moving tonight. Lots of singles, some doubles, uh mixed in there. Good base running and the Royals get eight in the fifth. Bobby Whit Jr. um I know there’s some there’s a weird stipulation that Bobby Wit Jr. is not clutch. Bobby Jr. was hitting like above 280, above 290 in high leverage situations. A top 20 hitter uh in Major League Baseball in those high lever situations. Obviously had not come up uh had not come through as often as he did last season when he was, you know, basically hitting 350 with runners in scoring position and a astronomical number. Um, but he gets a big big hit tonight with with a two-run single in that fifth inning. And that gave the Royals the lead and then they kept adding on. And it brings me to a question. A and NB got in here before the show and brought this question to the table. Um, he said he’s going to have to watch the postcast on tape delay. He’s probably got something else going on, but he brings a question. Uh, please address the offense’s inability to add on in later innings, particularly against the lowle leverage guys in the eighth and the ninth. I don’t want to say that they’re not doing that tonight. I don’t know. And you know, a and and b when if you get into the chat after I usually go through the comments after shows. Um if you’re watching this on tape delay after the fact, please let me know if this has anything to do with tonight’s game because tonight the Royals were just going up against position players. And I think there was a discussion about it in the comments before the show even got started about well it’s just bad etiquette. You know, baseball baseball is a game of unwritten rules. you don’t want to stretch a stretch a single to a double. There was a reason Jonathan India didn’t tag up on that final play uh or in that final inning. It was just it was salt in the wound. There was no reason to embarrass the team any more than they already had been. I was perfectly fine with what the Royals had done offensively throughout the final five innings where, you know, they really added on against some of the lowle leverage guys and then they had to go to Cory Lee who was who threw two innings there at the back end. uh Vile who it I mean you can call him a low leverage guy. He’s got a 238 RA this year and he’s a guy that throws a a pretty solid fast ball. He’s given them some really good outings this year. Um one of their top relievers and a guy that I would assume will be a a hot topic for them in the off season. But I just don’t think that they uh failed to add on. They just kind of took their foot off the gas because it’s the right thing to do. you don’t keep throwing the ball and running tempo in college football or in football when you have a a 24 point plus lead in the in the fourth quarter. It’s just it’s just bad sportsmanship in my opinion. And I think that’s how Major League Baseball operates. Not saying it’s the right way to do it, but that’s just how I’ve been taught and how it’s been ingrained in my in my mind, but I think the Royals offense tonight did did more than enough against Aaron Seaval after this first time through the order. just I don’t know why they weren’t seeing him well. I don’t know what it is there what it was there that they just weren’t seeing him well. But give credit to the Royals for being able to, you know, with their backs against the wall, they’re trailing heading into that inning and come out leading 8 to1 after that frame. And so for them to bounce back and to respond to the adversity that the tough abs that they had had, give give them credit. I I just feel like you have to. Uh, somebody said, uh, “My nickname should be give credit where credit’s due.” Uh, that’s that’s pretty funny. I Everybody’s got their word ticks that they hang up on, and I that seems to be one of mine. But, um, I I just don’t know. Uh, I don’t know what the uh the offensive outlook looks like. Justin asking me, “Are you any bit optimistic that you’ll run this podcast in October?” Um, I uh I honestly have no idea. I’m uh I’ve been known to be a pessimist, I guess, but I’m just trying to be a realist. I don’t think I’ll be wor I mean, not this postgame show. I I don’t know if that’s going to be a possibility, but I don’t know. That seems to be a a less likely of a possibility. The more games that go by, the less likely it becomes. I will say that because they just at some point you run out of games to make up in the standings. And uh while I like what the Royals are doing, I have enjoyed this last month and change of baseball. I just have a hard time seeing this team make a play a postseason push if they don’t, you know, string together a nine an eight out of nine stretch like they already have. You know, it’s really hard to put together two of those in such a short span. They need to do that and the schedule coming up just does not deem that uh as much of a possibility as some might think. But I appreciate the question, guys. Keep them coming in the live chat um because I will try to get to some of them in our final segment. But when we come back, we’ll discuss Ryan Bert. He is looking like, excuse me, a long-term solution in this rotation. A massive pickup for JJ Picolo and company at the trade deadline. We’ll talk about that when we come back. And we’ll also get to some of your questions in the chat coming up next on the Royals Post Cast. Hey there, Royals fans. Are you still paying full price for gas? Stop leaving money behind. Get real cash back every time you fill up with the free upside app. Simply download the free upside app in the app store or Google Play right now and start earning cash at the pump today. Use my limited time promo code football. That’s fo tbl and get an extra 25 cents back per gallon on your first fillup. 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Whether you’re watching your team or just keeping an eye on your fantasy lineup. So, are you ready to play? Download the FanDuel app now by visiting fanuel.com to get started. That’s fanduel.com to place your first $5 bet and you can get $300 in bonus bets if you win. That is FanDuel. All right. Appreciate you guys for staying here with us tonight. Um really really fun game tonight for the Royals. But Ryan Ber, I I really wanted to talk about him because he has been exceptional for the Royals here over the last month and change or I guess month really. No, there’s no change there. He got picked up on the 31st. He’s been fantastic. I mean, Ryan Bert is a guy I don’t want to call him what they got in Chris Bubich or uh in in Cole Reagans. Cole Reagans was a undisputed verified ace the moment he stepped on the mound for the Royals. He pitched like it. He had that blowway stuff. Ryan Bert is more along the lines of a Chris Bubich where he does not have overpowering fastball stuff. Cole Reagan does. And he also does not have a a massive pitch mix where Cole Reagan has five pitches and Ryan Ber and Chris Bubich are really reliant on their fast ball slider sweeper change up. I really like what I’ve seen from Ryan Ber through now I believe that’s five starts with the Royals for Ryan Ber. Let me pull it up here. Um through five starts with the Royals, a 254 RA, he struck out 25 and walked eight, a 1.02 whip. He’s getting ground balls. He has given up just four home runs. He is actually pitching really efficiently as well, getting through innings at a rapid rate, something we have not seen very often from the Royals pitching staff, especially um especially with uh the recent struggles of some of these pitchers. Um this has been a really tough go for the Royals pitching staff and the lone bright spot has been Ryan Bert who has been in what I would imagine will be the Royals pitcher of the month for the month of August. And for him to do that as a rookie in his first month with the team, I mean, that’s Cole Reagan stuff right there. And I really like the stuff that I’m seeing. I think that in pen next year, you can write down five guys that the Royals are going to have in the rotation. It’s going to be Burger, it’s going to be Reagan’s, it’s going to be Cameron, it’s going to be Lugo, and it’s going to be Waka. Those are five guys you can write down in pen. And you even have swing guys that you could use. I mean, Chris Bubich, who knows what his health looks like next season. uh Michael Lorenzan, Mikey Muscles, you can bring him back next year as a as a stretch guy, bullpin guy if you need to. There are a lot of options that the Royals have at their disposal in terms of arms. So, for them to be as good as they have been in getting identifying pitching, it really makes the off season so much easier where you can say, “Okay, we’ll resign Johnny Shriber and then we will focus our full energy on going out and getting guys at the plate.” You know, as uh as uh Aaron Boon would say, savages in the box. They need that in the lineup. Maybe Jack Kagleion develops into that. We’ve already seen Vinnie start to pick up a bit here recently. Mike Kell and Bobby, two allstars. The Royals are going to need three to four all-star bats in that lineup and then need to fill the rest, fill it to the gills with league average bats and stop banking on this hitting development turning into something that we already know that it’s not. The Royals have failed in terms of hitting development over the last I mean eight years other than Bobby and Vinnie I mean other than Bobby Vinnie and Mike who are the success stories for this Royals pitching or hitting development team I mean there’s just not a whole lot and so they need to absolutely go out and focus every single ounce of their efforts next season into or this off season into finding bats that can be more competitive at the plate. Maybe that’s resigning Yaz. Maybe that’s bringing back Randall Griick on a on a soft one-year deal. They need to go out and they need to find guys and stop relying on the minor league system and the minor league development to turn up major league bats because they just don’t have that right now. So, that would be my take uh on Ryan Ber. This pitching staff, they need much better from the lineup. And it feels weird saying that after a 12 to1 win, but Ryan Ber was phenomenal. It’s been a really, really rough stretch for Royals pitchers. And what we saw from Ryan Burgerer was very, very good tonight. So, um, let’s look at the, uh, at the comments, uh, because I want to get to some of those before we get out of here. Off day tomorrow, so might as well get your money’s worth here in the comments tonight. Curtis saying that the trade for Burger might have been one of the better trades JJ has done. Oh man. Uh, rank the trades JJ has made for pitchers. My top three in order would be Cole, Ersig, and Burger. Um, I’d probably put that up there as well. Uh, I’d probably put it’s interchangeable. I I think the Ersig trade was fantastic. I mean, they’re interchangeable really. Um, that’d be a great question for Jack in the uh in the Royals mailbag, which I’m sure he’ll have on Friday. Um, let’s uh let’s uh look around here. Um, any concern with Lugo starting on Friday? Not really. Um, whatever, man. I I I don’t know. I I don’t know. I uh I don’t know if I can be concerned with him. I I really don’t. He threw well last time out, but I I don’t think there’s any reason to be concerned, especially against the Tigers, who felt like he pitched well against in his last outing, but then again, um or maybe that was two outings ago. Maybe Oh, it was the Rangers outing that he pitched well. So, maybe not. And maybe I do have reason to be concerned, but maybe he’ll figure some things out. Two pitching against the same team twice in a week is uh a little bit difficult, but maybe he’ll be able to adjust a little bit. Kyle bringing in the moniker. Uh how are you doing tonight, Chance? Give credit where credit is due. Lebo, I’m doing great, Kyle. How are you? Thanks for hopping in the chat tonight. Um, somebody said A’s playoff. Um, I I don’t know what what is the standings looking like right there. Is that a Is that a real take there uh in the chat? Uh, Northern Missouri Outdoors or uh OED? Um, because I actually have money on the A’s to uh to finish above their win total. I mean, they’ve won seven out of 10. Don’t hate that. I’ve already cashed my Braves uh win uh season win total under. Um so I uh I do like that. Uh I I’m actually in my futures bets for Major League Baseball. Not that anybody cares, but I’m actually raking in the cash right now in Major League Baseball futures. Um Dean asking, “Who do you think will be the five starters next season?” Uh Reagan’s Burger B uh not Bubich, uh Waka, Lugo, and Cameron. I think that’s what you have to go into next year with. Uh maybe you open up with a six-man rotation with Bubich, but I would imagine it’s a fiveman and Bubich is in the bull bit is in the bullpen uh there at the end. Um Northern Missouri outdoors should Jensen me the call up instead of Kags. No, Kag’s rehab assignment will be expired on the uh on the roster expansion date. So So it will be Kags. Uh Parker asking if I have the dog today. He is on his bed right now. He is uh he’s in a he’s in a depressed mood. I don’t know why he didn’t get to see his friends tonight. Um yeah uh appreciate you guys for bringing in the comments tonight. We have gone well over tonight’s uh aotted time for the uh postcast, but I appreciate you uh you guys for joining us. Uh Justin asking, “Want to slide some cash?” We are a FanDuel sponsored show, folks. I’m going to give you uh my best bet for tomorrow. My best bet tomorrow is Wisconsin and uh Miami of Ohio over 40 and a half. Take that. Tuck yourself into bed with it. That is my bet for tomorrow in college football. I’m a big college football gambler. If you follow me on Twitter, Chance Lebo, I think I’m pointing in the right direction. I tweet out all my college football bets and I went seven and0 and pick six last week on ESPN Witchah. So, if you want some winning college football picks, I’m not a one-trick pony. I I’m a kind of a sharp college football gambler. Uh, knock on wood. Don’t want to jinx it, but appreciate you guys for being here with us uh this evening. We will see you on hopefully Friday. Going to try to get you guys a Friday episode, but um obviously I’m I’m traveling for Labor Day, moving my brother into his new place. So I don’t know exactly uh where uh I’ll be or if I’ll be able to get a show on Friday, but I will be able to communicate that with you on Twitter, Chance Lebo. But I appreciate you guys for being here with us tonight. Stay tuned for more Royals content here on the Locked On podcast or on the Locked On Royals channel. We’ll see you this weekend for another edition of the Royals Post Castle.

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